Any Top 100 list of UK comedy shows has the famous
Two Ronnies "
Four Candles" sketch in the top ten. Silly word play, songs and Ronnie Barker's fabulous timing, made them TV blockbusters for 16 years. Presenting a brief youtube linkdump...
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posted by twine42
on Aug 25, 2008 -
13 comments
"While we were there, sitting by the fire one night, I saw an extraordinary-looking dog that appeared to have
two noses. I was sober at the time, and then I remembered the story that the legendary explorer
Colonel Percy Fawcett came back with in 1913 of seeing such strange dogs in the Amazon jungle", explains fellow British Colonel John Blashford-Snell. The double-schnoz phenomenon has been documented in other
species, and has even been
studied,
dramatized, and
synthesized in humans. But a clue has recently been discovered in Bolivia that hints at not just a random mutation, but what might have once been a multi-snouted dog breed.
posted by Toekneesan
on Aug 13, 2007 -
30 comments
Shingle Street is a tiny,
picturesque hamlet on the coast of Suffolk harbouring a big WW2 mystery: the best developed rumour is of an attempt by the Germans to invade Britain at this spot which was anticipated and intercepted by pumping fuel onto the sea surface and setting fire to it. UK files on the subject are closed, again mysteriously, until 2021. Ronald Ashford, who claims to have been an
eye witness, has a lot
more information. You can
stay.
posted by rongorongo
on Jul 5, 2007 -
17 comments
Erik Petersen. Danish newspaper photographer. Died in 1997. He took a number of pictures around WWII.
He never developed them.
Fortunately, sixty years later, someone else has.
Now they can be found in
a book.
Here's a bit of
bloggery as well.
posted by IndigoJones
on Jun 2, 2005 -
14 comments
